Luis Soares's Blog, page 86

Feliz Natal!

Well did you hear, there's a natural order
Those most deserving will end up with the most
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top
Well I say, "Shit floats"

If you thought things had changed
Friend, you better think again
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words
Cunts are still runnin' the world
Cunts are still runnin' the world

Now the workin' classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let 'em all kill each other
And get it made overseas
That's the word, don't you know
From...

Blue Christmas

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performing "Blue Christmas" from Live At The Carousel, Asbury Park, NJ - 2010

Os Efeitos da Ternura

Os Efeitos da Ternura (Lundum anónimo circa 1790) - Ricardo Ribeiro e Os Músicos do Tejo

Ricardo Ribeiro - Voz
Marco Oliviera - Viola de fado e voz
Jarrod Cagwin – Percussão

Marcos Magalhães - orgão

Gravado no concerto de 14 de Dezembro de 2016 no Grande Auditório da Fundação Gulbenkian.

Os Músicos do Tejo - dir. Marcos Magalhães e Marta Araújo

Editado em disco pela NAXOS

Obrigado a José Pinheiro pela filmagem

Winter

On the occasion of the DG120 festivities, Max Richter plays in Hong Kong for the first time. Listen to “Winter 1 and 2” from his album Recomposed by Max Richter. For this piece, he is accompanied by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Mari Samuelsen.

Listen to “On the Nature of Daylight” from his albums The Blue Notebooks and Voyager. For this piece, he is accompanied by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Mari Samuelsen.

Mompou Variations On A Theme by Chopin

Daniil Trifonov plays Mompou Variations On A Theme by Chopin on the piano during his Yellow Lounge performance in Berlin.

TheVariationson a Theme of Chopinis a work for solo piano byFederico Mompou. It is based on thePrelude in A major, Op. 28, No. 7, byFrédéric Chopin.

It started out as a piece forcelloand piano, written incollaborationbetween Mompou and the cellistGaspar Cassadó. Work on this version of the piece started in 1938, but was abandoned. Mompou then published four variations for...

Magnificat

J. S. Bach: Magnificat hr-Sinfonieorchester Chœur du Concert D’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm

I. Magnificat
II. Et exsultavit
III. Quia respexit
IV. Omnes generationes
V. Quia fecit mihi magna
VI. Et misericordia
VII. Fecit potentiam
VIII. Deposuit potentes
IX. Esurientes
X. Suscepit Israel
XI. Sicut locutus est
XII. Gloria Patri et Filio

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Emőke Baráth, Sopran
Lea Desandre, Sopran
Damien Guillon, Countertenor
Patrick Grahl, Tenor
Victor Sicard,...

François Bard

Les personnages peints par François Bard nous interpellent. Anonymes, silhouettes féminines, faux flics ou vrais gangsters, nous nous retrouvons face à une scène qui a eu lieu et dont les protagonistes semblent attendre nos témoignages. La peinture de Bard nous prend ainsi à témoin. De « l’Enterrement à Ornans » de Gustave Courbet aux toiles évanescentes des intrigues au Congo Belge dépeintes par Luc Tuymans, c’est toute l’histoire de la peinture que d’avoir su témoigner et nous...

Natasha Trethewey - Enlightenment

In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs
at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned:
his forehead white with illumination —

a lit bulb — the rest of his face in shadow,
darkened as if the artist meant to contrast
his bright knowledge, its dark subtext.

By 1805, when Jefferson sat for the portrait,
he was already linked to an affair
with his slave. Against a backdrop, blue

and ethereal, a wash of paint that seems
to hold him in relief, Jefferson gazes out
across the centuries, his lips fixed as if

he's...

Modern Lovers

Stéphane Gizard is French photographer, living and working in Paris. Best known for portraits of young people created for his “Modern Lovers” series, photographer Stéphane Gizard’s gentle, kindly eye manages to capture the beauty and fragility of his subjects, which have included many celebrities and strangers. His work reveals their sensuality and brings out the expression of a truth; an intimate questioning. In parallel to working closely with the press and the advertising...

Weyes Blood: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Dec. 11, 2019 | Robin Hilton—For most of her performance at the Tiny Desk, Nataile Mering, the transfixing voice behind Weyes Blood, sang with her eyes closed, lost and blissed out in the gently sweeping sounds. She didn’t say a word until just before the last song, when she smiled and thanked everyone for coming. But you could feel the warmth and beauty and yearning in what was a tranquil, stirring set.

Mering and the other members of Weyes Blood kept the mix simple and restrained — a...